I thought Not Another Teen Movie was much funnier than it had any right to be. And Josie & the Pussycats is really, really, really good and extremely quotable, though not many people saw it. I never knew it was Rachel Leigh Cook in that anti-drug ad.
ita, is Grease generally considered a teen movie? While the characters are meant to be in high school, I wouldn't call it a "teen movie," both because all of the actors were obviously significantly older, and because I don't think teenagers were really meant to identify with the main characters in the way they're meant to identify with the leads of a teen film like The Breakfast Club or Save the Last Dance.
I still have a big love for select teen movies-
10 Things I Hate About You
stands out, and I like
What a Girl Wants
and of course
The Princess Diaries.
(Although that may not count as "teen" per se.)
LJ, I'm not sure. I have a hard time thinking of
Risky Business
as a teen movie either, and I think it's because they both came out before I started thinking of teendom. Which is to say, I have no perspective.
What are pre-80s teen movies like?
As for age, Olivia Newton John was one year older when she made
Grease
than Stacey Dash was when she made
Clueless.
And Johnny T was well within the range for, say, The OC. So I don't think that is a criterion.
I don't know about targetting, but when I saw it as a teen I liked it WAY more than when I saw it in my early 20s.
When I was a pre-teen, Grease was a big sleepover movie, which I think argues for it as a "teen" movie. Of course, then Top Gun came out, and we all grew up a little.....
Except for Carrie-Anne Moss (who I would watch reading the phone book to a dog), there is nothing about this movie that did not completely suck. It's like a bad parody of a bad X-Files episode, only longer and less coherent.
Which really sucks, because the director's other two films are quite interesting. SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE is just hugely entertaining and BEGOTTEN, while not an easy movie to watch, is a rather singular achievement. Hollywood claims another soul - feh!
It was like porn for us, for real.
SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE is just hugely entertaining
Eh, I wasn't a big fan. I thought Willem Dafoe gave a great performance, but the script depended way too much on cheap laughs, which weren't even all that funny. (And it had the same "look at my one camera trick!" problem that Being John Malkovich did.)
Eh, I wasn't a big fan. I thought Willem Dafoe gave a great performance, but the script depended way too much on cheap laughs, which weren't even all that funny. (And it had the same "look at my one camera trick!" problem that Being John Malkovich did.)
Well, I guess the cheap laughs worked for me, much the way the book FLICKER did. I'm not sure what you mean by the "one camera trick" w/r/t either SOTV or BJM. Neither movie seemed dependent on a particular visual IMO.
Top Gun came out, and we all grew up a little.....
God bless volleyball.
It was like porn for us, for real.
Dude, I *still* stop what I'm doing and watch the volleyball scene whenever Top Gun is on TV.
